The COVID-19 battle of the masses

 

Two interesting items from the Washington Post;  one an article, one an op-ed.

1. Vaccinated people are ready for normalcy — and angry at the unvaccinated getting in their way

    "An unwelcome resurgence of the coronavirus has caused a groundswell of impatience, frustration and even rage from Americans who got their shots months ago toward those whose resistance won’t budge. States are reimplementing mask requirements, corporations are delaying their returns to the office and support is building for more coercive ways to tamp down the virus’s spread, including vaccine mandates. 

    Watching it all, the vaccinated are emphasizing that it didn’t have to be this way. Some officials are sending a similar message.
    “It’s time to start blaming the unvaccinated folks, not the regular folks,” Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey (R) said this month. “It’s the unvaccinated folks that are letting us down.” "

2.  Will the delta variant turn Americans against one another?

    "The approximately 50 percent of Americans who have stepped up to the plate and been fully vaccinated, thus drastically reducing the infection rates (for a while), are fed up. The delta variant is quickly overtaking what progress was made by the willing and is swiftly moving through populations of the unvaccinated. The fear among experts is that as delta spreads, infected people will surround and overwhelm vaccinated people through “spillover infection,” while continuing to retard herd immunity."

Over the past few days, and as I write this, there has been an upswing in the vaccination rate in some states and places where the rate has been low.  Will it be enough?  I think the truest words I've read were also in the WP, in an online headline, that said, basically, it's going to get worse before it gets better.

Thank you so much, merchants of misinformation.